My life might have been saved today. And my wisdom teeth surgery has been rescheduled for the FOURTH time.

The first time it was a freak snow storm and we were already in the office, I was about to be prepped, when my dad called and told us to come home. So we did. After leaving I started thinking that the place looked a little shady. We rescheduled, but with a different oral surgeon. (Right off the bat I could see that he was a better surgeon, with a better staff.) I got to go see him a month later for a consult with the actual appointment scheduled one week after that. THAT appointment got canceled because the surgeon had to perform an emergency surgery on a small child. So we rescheduled it for the third time.

That appointment was today. As many of you know, I saw an endocrinologist last week who suspected that I have a problem with cortisol. The blood tests haven’t happened yet, so we don’t know. As I sat down to be prepped for surgery, the surgeon asked me if my medical situation had changed any and I mentioned the appointment and what I was being tested for. He turned around very slowly to face me and said, “Really?” Then he went on to explain a very, very scary situation.

Since I don’t have the tests done yet (getting them done tomorrow, March 12) we can’t know for sure, but here is why he would not perform the surgery today. It turns out that if I DO have this cortisol problem I am at a high risk for stroke or heart attack while under anesthesia 0_0 So I have to get the tests done and then schedule the surgery one more time.

I want to give thanks to God for blocking the road and closing doors each time I went in for this surgery. Every time I got mad, until the last time, when I had a sense of peace and decided, “God has some reason for this so I’m going to roll with the punches.” I am scared to think about what might have happened if I hadn’t seen the endocrinologist before this surgery or if I hadn’t had a perceptive and well-educated surgeon who wasn’t willing to take a chance on my life.

There’s a reason for everything!